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New Humor, published in Jane Austen's Wastebasket!
I just published I’m the Boogeyman in Your Son’s Room, and We Need to Renegotiate My Lease medium.com/jane-austens...
I just published I’m the Boogeyman in Your Son’s Room, and We Need to Renegotiate My Lease medium.com/jane-austens...
I’m the Boogeyman in Your Son’s Room, and We Need to Renegotiate My Lease
This just isn’t what I signed up for
medium.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
New Humor, published in Jane Austen's Wastebasket!
I just published I’m the Boogeyman in Your Son’s Room, and We Need to Renegotiate My Lease medium.com/jane-austens...
I just published I’m the Boogeyman in Your Son’s Room, and We Need to Renegotiate My Lease medium.com/jane-austens...
John: Father, forgive me for I have sinned. I don’t quite know how to say this, but I’m here because I’m happy. You see, last August, my wife and I made the most difficult decision of our lives.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/the...
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/the...
They Say Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, but We’re Still Waiting
Sending Johnny Jr. to boarding school was the best decision of our lives
medium.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Reposted
10th-grade math teacher: Once a year, on your birthday, you drink a full pint of vodka, walk into your closet, and scream.
What Your Drink Order Says About Your Teaching Career
10th-grade math teacher: Once a year, on your birthday, you drink a full pint of vodka, walk into your closet, and scream.
www.pointsincase.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
10th-grade math teacher: Once a year, on your birthday, you drink a full pint of vodka, walk into your closet, and scream.
New humor in @pointsincase.com
What does a teacher's drink order say about their career?
www.pointsincase.com/articles/wha...
What does a teacher's drink order say about their career?
www.pointsincase.com/articles/wha...
What Your Drink Order Says About Your Teaching Career
10th-grade math teacher: Once a year, on your birthday, you drink a full pint of vodka, walk into your closet, and scream.
www.pointsincase.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
New humor in @pointsincase.com
What does a teacher's drink order say about their career?
www.pointsincase.com/articles/wha...
What does a teacher's drink order say about their career?
www.pointsincase.com/articles/wha...
Work in Slackjaw!
Dedicated to anyone who's ever dreamed of taking to the mountains
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medium.com/slackjaw/as-...
Dedicated to anyone who's ever dreamed of taking to the mountains
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medium.com/slackjaw/as-...
As An Aspiring Warlord, I Find These High School Reunions So Awkward
Not everyone dreams of a house, a family, a car, and a mortgage
medium.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Work in Slackjaw!
Dedicated to anyone who's ever dreamed of taking to the mountains
...
medium.com/slackjaw/as-...
Dedicated to anyone who's ever dreamed of taking to the mountains
...
medium.com/slackjaw/as-...
My Love Affair With Uyghur Cuisine
A cuisine at the crossroads
medium.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Enjoy my humor writing? Ever been a teacher? A student?
Follow my FREE newsletter for one piece of humor writing each Monday, adjacent to the world of edication.
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Follow my FREE newsletter for one piece of humor writing each Monday, adjacent to the world of edication.
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Welcome to Funny Teacher
A newsletter for anyone who's ever found the humor in school
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Enjoy my humor writing? Ever been a teacher? A student?
Follow my FREE newsletter for one piece of humor writing each Monday, adjacent to the world of edication.
open.substack.com/pub/funnytea...
Follow my FREE newsletter for one piece of humor writing each Monday, adjacent to the world of edication.
open.substack.com/pub/funnytea...
My reflections as my first year of writing humor comes to a close.
@Medium #mediumabridged
medium.com/@robplotkinw...
@Medium #mediumabridged
medium.com/@robplotkinw...
On Learning to Write Humor
Everything I’ve learned (not much), what I want to learn, and the year ahead
medium.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My reflections as my first year of writing humor comes to a close.
@Medium #mediumabridged
medium.com/@robplotkinw...
@Medium #mediumabridged
medium.com/@robplotkinw...
My writing goals for 2026. But first I need to recruit a bot army. Can someone direct me to Bluesky grok who might be able to help me with this ?
medium.com/another-fuck...
medium.com/another-fuck...
My Writing Goals for 2026: Grow Grow Grow
Hiring: An army of Medium bots
medium.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My writing goals for 2026. But first I need to recruit a bot army. Can someone direct me to Bluesky grok who might be able to help me with this ?
medium.com/another-fuck...
medium.com/another-fuck...
My much belated Christmas essay, that asks a very reasonable question: what would I, a 2 year old, like for Christmas?
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My much belated Christmas essay, that asks a very reasonable question: what would I, a 2 year old, like for Christmas?
Reposted
Remember last Christmas when I told you there was no Santa, and that me and your dad were the ones giving you presents?
I lied.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/i-k...
I lied.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/i-k...
I Know I Told You Santa Wasn’t Real, but I Take It All Back
It’s not just your dad in a suit
medium.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Remember last Christmas when I told you there was no Santa, and that me and your dad were the ones giving you presents?
I lied.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/i-k...
I lied.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/i-k...
My (hopefully not-too-navel-gazey) piece on what I learned in writing humor and fiction this year. + a list of my favorite publications on Medium, including @frazzledhumor.bsky.social , Rooted, Sharing Food, and Jane Austen's Wastebasket. medium.com/@robplotkinw...
My Year in Writing
Finding my writer identity and negotiating genre
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My (hopefully not-too-navel-gazey) piece on what I learned in writing humor and fiction this year. + a list of my favorite publications on Medium, including @frazzledhumor.bsky.social , Rooted, Sharing Food, and Jane Austen's Wastebasket. medium.com/@robplotkinw...
Reposted
Dear Santa,
I’m pleased to finally have the opportunity to create my own Christmas wish list. This is my first Christmas after all.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/as-...
I’m pleased to finally have the opportunity to create my own Christmas wish list. This is my first Christmas after all.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/as-...
As a Two-Year-Old, I Expect to Receive Every Item on My Christmas Wish-List
It’s not too much to ask
medium.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Dear Santa,
I’m pleased to finally have the opportunity to create my own Christmas wish list. This is my first Christmas after all.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/as-...
I’m pleased to finally have the opportunity to create my own Christmas wish list. This is my first Christmas after all.
By @robplotkinwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/frazzled/as-...
5 Reading recs-what I've enjoyed in humor and beyond over the last two weeks:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Five Reading Recommendations 12/12/2025
4 Humor Pieces and 1 Wildcard
substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
5 Reading recs-what I've enjoyed in humor and beyond over the last two weeks:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reposted
Anyone tried the famous Turkish "wet burger?"
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
Istanbul’s Iconic “Wet Burger”
The evolution of a Turkish street food classic
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Anyone tried the famous Turkish "wet burger?"
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
What if Birdwatching was like the Superbowl? read more to find out (+some fun, Maine humor).
www.robotbutt.com/2025/11/30/n... Thanks @robotbutt.bsky.social !
www.robotbutt.com/2025/11/30/n... Thanks @robotbutt.bsky.social !
Nation "Flocks” to Bangor, Maine, to Witness Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird Sighting | Robot Butt
Last weekend, birders from every corner of the nation descended on Bangor (population 32,446) to become a part of the aviary event of the century.
www.robotbutt.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
What if Birdwatching was like the Superbowl? read more to find out (+some fun, Maine humor).
www.robotbutt.com/2025/11/30/n... Thanks @robotbutt.bsky.social !
www.robotbutt.com/2025/11/30/n... Thanks @robotbutt.bsky.social !
Anyone tried the famous Turkish "wet burger?"
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
Istanbul’s Iconic “Wet Burger”
The evolution of a Turkish street food classic
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Anyone tried the famous Turkish "wet burger?"
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
New İstanbul food and travel writing:
medium.com/sharing-food...
Would you try it?
How should you talk to your kids about the death of their pet?
New humor in Jane Austen's Wastebasket on @medium
#funny #satire #humor #parenting #pets #dogs
medium.com/jane-austens...
New humor in Jane Austen's Wastebasket on @medium
#funny #satire #humor #parenting #pets #dogs
medium.com/jane-austens...
The Passing of a Pet is the Right Time to Talk to Your Kids about Death and Eternal Damnation.
Lucy was a bad, bad dog
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
How should you talk to your kids about the death of their pet?
New humor in Jane Austen's Wastebasket on @medium
#funny #satire #humor #parenting #pets #dogs
medium.com/jane-austens...
New humor in Jane Austen's Wastebasket on @medium
#funny #satire #humor #parenting #pets #dogs
medium.com/jane-austens...
Published new foodwriting in Rooted on Medium-impressions of eating in Greenland.
medium.com/rooted-publi...
medium.com/rooted-publi...
Eating in Greenland: A Novice’s Guide
Sea to table meets global food systems
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Published new foodwriting in Rooted on Medium-impressions of eating in Greenland.
medium.com/rooted-publi...
medium.com/rooted-publi...
Just posted new humor on @frazzledhumor.bsky.social
*disclaimer-this does not represent my true feelings towards my daughter and her peers.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
*disclaimer-this does not represent my true feelings towards my daughter and her peers.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
Why I Got My Five-Year-Old Son a Fake ID
I’ll give you a hint: No one’s around in August
medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just posted new humor on @frazzledhumor.bsky.social
*disclaimer-this does not represent my true feelings towards my daughter and her peers.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
*disclaimer-this does not represent my true feelings towards my daughter and her peers.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
Reposted
I tap on the van window. It rolls down slowly, releasing a sour smell that I can’t quite identify.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
medium.com/frazzled/why...
Why I Got My Five-Year-Old Son a Fake ID
I’ll give you a hint: No one’s around in August
medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I tap on the van window. It rolls down slowly, releasing a sour smell that I can’t quite identify.
medium.com/frazzled/why...
medium.com/frazzled/why...
What's in a name? Had a lot of fun with this medium.com/slackjaw/im-...
I’m Jiminy Cricket, And I’d Prefer You Didn’t Say My Name In Vain, Either
I’ve got some alternatives.
medium.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What's in a name? Had a lot of fun with this medium.com/slackjaw/im-...
